Upstream package splitted into sub-packages: ipe, figtoipe.

Florian Festi ffesti at redhat.com
Tue Dec 4 08:48:53 UTC 2007


Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 09:27 +0100, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, if I split ipe into two packages, or two sub-packages, how can I 
>> provide an upgrade path for users that assume that /usr/bin/figtoipe is 
>> provided by ipe, without adding a hard-coded Requires? I am not sure that a 
>> solution exists.
> 
> Let both (sub-)packages do this:
> 
> Obsoletes: ipe < 6.0-0.23.pre30
> Conflicts: ipe < 6.0-0.23.pre30
> 
> I hope your package isn't multilib, in this case current yum in F8 (I
> have yum-3.2.7-1.fc8) would install both architectures even if
> originally only one was installed.

This is fixed in yum 3.2.8 which should be available as a Fedora update soon 
(Upstream release was yesterday).

Florian




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